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| UNDERSTANDING THE PLACEBO EFFECT IN COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
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Theory, Practice and Research
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Edited By
David Peters, MBChB, DRCOG, MFHom, MLCOM, Clinical Director, School of Intergrated Health, University of Westminster, London; Director, Complementary
Therapies Unit and Osteopath, Marylebone Health Centre, London, UK
Description
The placebo elicits more passionate debate, scepticism and personal belief than almost any other aspect of medicine. As yet there are
no concrete answers - but many challenging observations and powerful effects occur daily in healthcare which need to be examined. This
book will stimulate and inform every reader - from the experienced practitioner to the new student - who has ever asked, "What is the
placebo really, and why should it matter to me?" Written in an accessible and engaging style with contributions from leading figures
in healthcare, it tackles issues of the placebo effect in complementary medicine.
Audience
Complementary therapists, general practitioners, family practitioners, nurses.
Contents
Part One: Theory.
Medical Anthropology Perspectives.
The Mind/Brain/Body Connection.
The Clinical Impact of Placebo
Responses -- A Review.
Part Two: Clinical Implications.
Can We Optimise Non-Specific Effects? Transference Cures, Post-Modernism,
Potencies and Placebos.
Transforming the Impossible Patient? Mind, Models and Methods, Therapeutic Touch and the Placebo Response.
Complementary Medicine Effectiveness Beyond the Placebo Response.
Part Three: Models for Research.
Unpicking the Tapestry,
Research Into the Placebo Response.
Placebo Response and the Participative World View
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 200 pages, publication date: JUL-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06031-1
ISBN-10: 0-443-06031-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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